BAY CITY — A Williams Township man who won the lottery less than two years ago is now clear of criminal charges throughout the state, having pleaded guilty this morning to eight misdemeanors and one civil infraction in Bay County.

Leroy N. Fick, 60, on Thursday appeared before Bay County District Judge Dawn A. Klida and pleaded guilty to three counts of illegal possession of fireworks, three counts of operating a motor vehicle on a restricted license and single counts of operating a motor vehicle on a restricted license, second offense, allowing an unlicensed person to drive and driving 97 mph in a 55 mph zone.

“This is the end of a very tumultuous and long road for Mr. Fick,” said his attorney, John Wilson. “We’ve cleaned up all of his files around the state. We’ve taken care to get Mr. Fick back to solid footing in regards to the criminal law situation.”

Fick in June 2010 won nearly $2 million in the state’s Make Me Rich! lottery. Fick took his winnings in a post-tax lump sum of $998,570. Shortly thereafter, he began amassing criminal charges across the state and recently completed a 45-day sentence in the Isabella County Jail for illegal possession of a prescription painkiller.

Fick sparked controversy when he admitted to using his Bridge Card even after winning the lottery. The state Senate today approved a bill preventing future lottery winners from receiving public food assistance.

“This is a very sad story,” Wilson said. “It’s a story that the money he won is essentially gone. He’s living hand-to-mouth again, and it’s very sad to see how he’s been taken advantage of by his family and other people who swooped in.

“He obviously knows things got way out of hand,” Wilson continued, adding that Fick’s son and daughter were largely responsible for their father’s decline. “They’re not coming back to his house, his son or his daughter. He frankly doesn’t have the money to be getting into trouble again.”

The fireworks charges stem from witnesses seeing Fick with Roman candles, mortars and sky rockets at his home on Sept. 5 and 26 and near the intersection of Flajole and West Townline roads on Sept. 27.

Wilson previously said a good portion of Fick’s money went toward purchasing fireworks. When Fick and son Jeffrey Fick appeared on the TLC program “Lottery Changed My Life,” he displayed a pile of fireworks he said he obtained from “the Indians in Mount Pleasant.”

Per Wilson’s request, Klida sentenced Fick to 45 days in jail with credit for time served.

“License restrictions are there for a reason, and you need to comply with that,” Klida told Fick. “Whether you think it’s appropriate or not, that’s the law.”

Fick declined to comment and only spoke throughout the hearing to answer the judge’s yes-or-no questions.